In another curious case of Bitcoin crime, a primary suspect named Sindri Thor Stefansson in ‘big Bitcoin heist’ has at liberty the Iceland-based jail and fled on the plane with country’s prime minister. As per The freelance, the prime suspect within the thievery of quite 600 computers that were wont to mine Bitcoin climbed out of a window at the low-security Sogn open jail, a low-security facility that had no fences. He had boarded the Iceland air flight certain for national capital Arlanda field at Keflavik field, mistreatment another person’s passport.

The European Union Parliament has supported a move that may create cryptocurrency exchanges need to use client verification rules to their platforms. Major EU exchanges have welcome the move, because it is being recognised as a revolution towards the regulation rather than forbidding.

Members of European Parliament (MEPs) passed the move by 574 votes to thirteen votes, with sixty abstentions – a December2017 agreement reached with the Council, that conjointly projected nearer regulation for virtual currencies like Bitcoin, to stop them from getting used for concealing and terrorist act funding.

The agreement represents the fifth and therefore the latest update to the EU’s Anti-money lavation Directive and is partially a response to the terrorist attacks of 2015 and 2016 in Paris and national capital, further because the Panama Papers leaks.